ICE BEAM
This beam will freeze an enemy for a short period of time, making them unable to move. Samus can jump or move a frozen enemy without receiving damage. This beam works well on organic enemies, but useless on the robots and some armored creatures.

WAVE BEAM
This blasting beam spreads your shots over a wide area so that you can hit creatures in the air and on the ground, it travels in a wave shape.

SPAZER LASER BEAM
A three way beam with an extremely wide focus is fired when this weapon is discharged.

PLASMA BEAM
This extremely powerful weapon fires a beam that can even penetrate solid walls. It is the strongest and most destructive of all of the beam type items.